A Brief History Of iPod
By: Roberto Sedycias
iPod is a digital mp3 / mp4 player developed and marketed by Apple Inc., an American consumer electronics multinational corporation.  During their research, Apple found that in comparison to available camcorders, digital cameras, and organizers; digital music players recorded poor sales, primarily due to their awful user interfaces.  Apple wanted to do something about it and so Jon Rubinstein, Apple’s hardware engineering chief brought together a team comprising of Tony Fadell (who dreamed of a hard disk based music player), Michael Dhuey (hardware engineer), Jonathan Ive (design engineer), and Stan Ng (marketing manager).  In less than a year, they designed a hard disk based music player, that had a 5 GB hard drive and capable of storing 1000 songs.

Apple’s iTunes software is utilized to operate the iPod (m3 / mp4 player).  The software is compatible with all Mac systems.  The operating system is stored on its hard disk.  A boot loader program is contained in a NOR flash ROM chip (either 1 MB or 512 KB) which instructs the device to load the operating system from the hard disk.  The iPod has a 32 MB of RAM, a portion of which is used to hold the operating system from firmware, and the rest is used to cache songs from the hard disk.  Apple also invented a technology whereby the hard disk of iPod could spin up once and about 30 MB of upcoming songs could be cached into the RAM.  This did not require the hard disk to spin up for every song and thereby saved battery power.  Apple also introduced a Windows version of iPod, at a later stage.

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Ipod Most Popular Mp3 Mp4 player
By: Roberto Sedycias
This is an mp3 / mp4 player that music lovers acknowledge the most in the modern time. US-based Apple, one among the largest producers of computers, notebooks and computer hardware and software, introduced iPod in 2001 with a single model for the international music market. Apple kept on introducing new iPods for each generation. The latest one is the iPod 5G. Apple also came up with two different variants: the iPod Shuffle (without digital display), the iPod Nano (the smaller version of iPod). Recently, Apple came up with the new-generation of iPod, the iPhone that integrates the conventional MP3 and video player with an internet ready mobile phone.

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With a catalog of almost 2,000 games in nine years, built for PlayStation 2, of Sony, the biggest selling console in history, or about 1,000 available to the Nintendo DS,the Japanese company, Apple boasts over 20,000 developments available for iPhone and iPod Touch through the Apple Store. Most are not developed games, ar mini-games, but  that is probably the largest catalog, of the industry.

Probably no one at the apple company headquarters in Cupertino hoped the phone and the player’s house turned into a perfect medium for casual gamers. Much less that the games are sophisticated to the point where it is possible to play FIFA, Sims, the RockBand or Civilization Revolution in this small touch devices. Where others crashed, Apple has succeeded, but has no command and control accessories.

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